On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 18:33 +0000, Alan Chandler wrote: > Following my upgrading to linux 2.6.7 I have been unable to burn a CD. This > is still true now, even as root, with kernel 2.6.9, having also tried 2.6.8 > > I know there was a lot of fuss with cdrecord and 2.6.8, but my problems seem > to predate that. > > What happens, when I try to do any simple command is that one of the child > processes of cdrecord seems to be stuck in the D state in the kernel. That > is, its done an uninterrruptable IO request which has not been detected as > completed by the kernel driver (ide-cd?). This means you can't kill the > process (even with kill -9) and the only way to get rid of it is with a > reboot. (there was a recent discussion on processes getting into this state > on the kernel mailing list). > > Just so everyone is clear of the situation, the second IDE channel has two > cdrom like drives. /dev/hdc is the cdrw device which I am trying to use to > burn, /dev/hdd is a dvd device. > > I used the simple command > > cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 blank=fast > > and (with a Rewriteable CD in the drive) it then preceeds to hang.
Works for me.
mkisofs -v -L -max-iso9660-filenames -R -relaxed-filenames ${dest} | \
cdrecord -v -speed=8 -multi -dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -
# uname -r
2.6.8
# mkisofs --version
mkisofs 2.01a34-unofficial-iconv (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
# cdrecord --version
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a38 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 \
Jörg Schilling
# zcat /proc/config.gz | grep IDECD
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
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